Any recommendations or particular favorites that you may remember fondly of?

The ones I remember most are

28 Days Later 28 Weeks Later The Book of Eli The Road A Boy and His Dog Damnation Alleythe Mad Max movies (only watched the Road Warrior and Beyond Thunderdome as of now) The Omega Man CyborgThe Matrix (didn't watch the sequels)The Day After TomorrowThe Terminator films, And I saw parts of I Am Legend, so I have to re-watch it some time again.

and virtually almost all of the zombie apocalypse films fit the category and it feels like there is a gazillion of those by now, but I haven't watched too many of them other than the "28 _ Later" series, Dawn of The Dead and Land of The Dead.

I'm sure there are more, that I've missed and yet to see. So any recommendations are welcome!

If there's one thing that's most important about these films that I've noticed is that even in the worst and bleakest hopeless times, people won't simply give up on their lives and give up living, they keep going forward, they continue to fight for their survival no matter what as there's no going back to the way things once were before their world has totally turned upside down into a complete dystopian world that is a complete utter nightmare.

They face the reality that is in front of them, the fate they are given and they will do what they can with whatever is left and whatever and whomever that they have left and do whatever they must even when it all seems lost and hopeless.

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Anybody else have any recommendations of these kind of films to recommend me?

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I saw parts of I Am Legend, have to re-watch it again. I did see the original film that it was based on though. "The Omega Man". World War Z is more recent, probably will check it out too. I'm more into other various kinds of apocalyptic or existential risks explored on the big screen besides the zombie ones since those are like the most or very common ones.

Some are more dark and emotional such as The Road. There's also Steven King's The Stand but that was more of a mini-TV series than a film, don't know if you heard of that one.

I also like cyberpunk/post apocalyptic movies. I don't have my list at my hand but you might like "Minority Report", "Edge of Tomorrow", "Resident Evil" and "Doom" (the movie to the game).en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cyberpunk_works has a nice list too. If you like anime "Ergo Proxy" and "Psycho Pass" are also worth a try.

The movie for Doom wasn't very "apocalyptic", it's more like "what if" apocalyptic those creatures did make it to earth.

The original classic Doom, games, however, especially Doom 2: Hell On Earth is what an apocalyptic nightmare would be from a Demonic invasion from Hell. Maybe the Next Doom game that follows up after the current reboot Doom game will be set back on Earth to show what the aftermath will be. Originally the were going to do it that was after Doom 3 but because they went through a development hell process and decided to reboot Doom, again.

I remember Minority Report, I've seen that already, but I will rewatch it again. The later Resident Evil films eventually became apocalyptic, but I don't focus too much on zombie apocalyptic films since those had been like very very common. I like the ones that are very dark and more emotional and make you think, feel and question things, such as The Road, or A. I. Artificial Intelligence, specifically the conclusion of those films.

You meant the first-person sequence, but he had been upgraded and enhanced to superhuman "god" status because of those alien chromosomes or dna or some shit. If it wasn't for that he would have been fucked in the last fight sequence against "Sarge".

It's a very dark film, more serious tone on what it's like to try and make it when the world has completely fallen apart and nothing really makes sense anymore. The thing with The Road is that it is NOT even clear what caused the apocalypse.

Generally it's melancholic for those genre films, but it makes you question things, feel things, feel empathy and sympathy for the characters in those works of fiction, or even feel grateful and appreciate the things we have now. As bad as where we are now or no matter how shitty things are now for us, it could have been much much worse compared to those kind of situations or environment. You get what I mean?

I love post-apocalyptic movies. I think of how much better it would be to live in a PA world, and that takes me away from this shithole for a while. As long as they've got a decent story and good acting, I'm in. If those are shit, then forget it.

Zombie Apocalyptic comedy, I though it was actually more interesting that way. Most of the other ones were very dark, such as the 28 _ later series.

As I think the zombie type of apocalyptic post-apocalyptic films had been like almost done to death and there's always going to even more coming out, I would think that Shaun Of The Dead stands out the most for being hilarious and a zombie film at the same time.

Shaun of the dead tag line is "a zombie apocalypse romantic comedy" or something lol. It still scares me, I can't watch it alone but I love it. I love the entire cornet to trilogy. (Cornet to trilogy is 1. Shaun of the dead 2. Hot Fuzz and 3. The Worlds End)

I've seen most of those. I'd add Children of men, The last survivor, Hell comes to frog town, snowpiercer, Doomsday, Logan's run, escape from new york, The postman, Reign of fire, Soylent green, Waterworld, and Stakeland.